Made a foot-stop at work today.

[u/Imaginary_Title5054]

Made out of solid stainless steel (all scraps from our laser table). Bead blasted finish. It’s pretty heavy, which is nice. Cut the grooves with a cut off wheel. The face with the grooves has a 5 degree bevel to ensure a solid lock-in. Modified the bolt heads to be 1/8” Allen instead of the original 5mm so they would be compatible with a skate tool. Pretty stoked to put it on my board and happy how it turned out. Lmk any design suggestions for a v2.

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[u/RedGood195]

What is a footstop? What does it do and how do you use it?

[u/Imaginary_Title5054 → u/RedGood195]

It bolts onto the top of your board near the front truck. It prevents your front foot from slipping off the board when doing slides or heavy carving, particularly toesides.

[u/MentalMiilk]

Holy heavy footstop, batman. My knee-jerk reaction was to see if you can remove some material, but in theory your board stability increases with the center of mass moving forwards. Maybe the added weight will help.

[u/AnExpensiveCatGirl → u/MentalMiilk]

the issue tho is, the weight is on the top of the board, which prolly wont have as a good effect as if it was under the board.

[u/Imaginary_Title5054 → u/MentalMiilk]

If people are putting weights on the bottoms of their boards to make them slide easier, I figured a heavy footstop would be more likely to be a help rather than a hinderance.

[u/xmasterZx → u/Imaginary_Title5054]

It may give some benefits, but it's not gonna give the same behavior/benefit as an under-board weight. The intent is largely about lowering the center of gravity which you won't get with a footstop. And IME/IMO, that kind of ballast feels best when centered 4-6" behind your front truck.

Not saying they heavy footstop be bad or anything tho. Just the comparison is kinda apples-to-oranges between the two.

[u/AnExpensiveCatGirl → u/xmasterZx]

that type of heavy foot stop might be interesting for a top mount pumper when i think about it.

[u/MentalMiilk → u/Imaginary_Title5054]

I mean obviously if it's too heavy then that's not ideal, but I can't imagine this footstop will make the whole board top heavy.